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  2. Berm - Wikipedia

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    Security berms are common around military and nuclear facilities. An example is the berm proposed for Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vermont. [10] At Baylor Ballpark, a baseball stadium on the campus of Baylor University, a berm is constructed down the right field line. The berm replaces bleachers, and general admission tickets are sold ...

  3. Hesco bastion - Wikipedia

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    The placement of the barrier is generally very similar to the placement of a sandbag barrier or earth berm except that room must generally be allowed for the equipment used to fill the barrier. [10] The HESCO barriers are varied in sizes and models. Most of the barriers can also be stacked, and they are shipped collapsed in compact sets.

  4. Moroccan Western Sahara Wall - Wikipedia

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    The Moroccan Western Sahara Wall or the Berm, also called the Moroccan sand wall (Arabic: الجدار الرملي, romanized: al-jidār ar-ramliyya, lit. 'sand wall'), is an approximately 2,700 km-long (1,700 mi) berm running south to north through Western Sahara and the southwestern portion of Morocco .

  5. Ditch (fortification) - Wikipedia

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    Chemin de ronde: a pathway running along the berm, behind the faussebraye or Carnot wall. [2] Cunette: a narrow channel that runs along the floor of the ditch for drainage purposes. Bartardeau: a type of masonry dam across a ditch that is part wet and part dry. [3] Counterscarp: the outer slope or wall of the ditch (furthest from the fort).

  6. Military background helps Cheboygan construction firm get ...

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    Currently, Power Construction is on pace to do about $30 million of revenue this year, up from $11 million last year. ... The father and son team bring a military and emergency-services background ...

  7. Compound (fortification) - Wikipedia

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    In military science, a compound is a type of fortification made up of walls or fences surrounding several buildings in the center of a large piece of land. The walls can either serve the purpose of being tall, thick, and impenetrable, in which case they would be made of wood, stone, or some other like substance; or dangerous to attempt to scale ...

  8. How, Exactly, Did This Gator Climb a Fence? - AOL

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    The video. We normally think of military bases as having some of the best security in the world. There’s no doubt this is true when it comes to defenses against human intruders. However ...

  9. Defensive fighting position - Wikipedia

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    An Indian Wehrmacht volunteer in a Tobruk DFP along the Atlantic Wall, 1944. During the fighting in North Africa (1942–43), U.S. forces employed the shell scrape.This was a very shallow excavation allowing one soldier to lie horizontally while shielding his body from nearby shell bursts and small arms fire.